Now experts have identified the painting as a work by Pablo Picasso, as the British newspaper “Guadian” reports. It probably shows the French painter and photographer Dora Maar, model and occasional lover of the artist. The picture is said to have been taken between 1930 and 1936. At the time, Picasso was a frequent visitor to the southern Italian island of Capri.
It was La Rosso's son Andrea who noticed the signature and noted the similarity to other paintings by Picasso. But the Picasso Foundation in Malaga, which Andrea La Rossa contacted, was no longer interested in the picture. Picasso, who died in 1973, created more than 14,000 works and the foundation receives hundreds of messages every day from people claiming to have an original.
Other experts the La Rossas family turned to, including art detective Maurizio Seracini, examined the picture for years and ultimately came to the conclusion that there was no evidence that the signature was not authentic. The value of the painting, now in Milan, is estimated at six million euros.
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